Author Guidelines
Dear colleagues,
You are kindly requested to read, follow, and observe the following Guide for authors.
- Content of the manuscript
The manuscript should be devoted to the key sections of the Journal: Economic Theory; Mathematical, Statistical and Instrumental Methods in Economy; Regional and Industrial Economy.
The manuscript should describe the main, full and previously unpublished findings of new economic studies not to be submitted to other journals.
It could include the regular sections about the relevancy of the study, its theoretical, methodological, and practical value, methods of research and their novelty, findings and conclusions, possible further research.
Each section should have its title in bold letters.
The Editorial Board of the Journal would highly recommend the authors to follow an internationally recognized IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion).
The authors who submit their manuscripts guarantee that they observe all ethical codes of publications and rules of law.
- Title of the article and its section
The title consists of max. 10–12 words. It should be concise, informative, written in a scientific style, include key words which reveal the topic of the research and the content of the work and underline the scientific novelty and value of the study.
- Metadata
The Editorial Board of the Journal prepares a Manuscript Sample with the proper format for metadata. Do not send any metadata in a separate file!
Russian metadata of each manuscript should include:
− UDC, LBC identifiers, and JEL Code;
− manuscript title;
− first name, patronymic name (if any), surname of the author (co-authors);
− SPIN Code (RSCI), Author ID (RSCI), other identifiers of the authors, if any (e.g., Researcher ID; Scopus Author ID);
− e-mail;
− affiliation;
− abstract;
− key words.
Details about the author (co-authors) are given separately: surname, first name, patronymic name (if any); academic degree, academic rank; position, organization – place of work (country, postal code, city, street, building); e-mail.
English metadata and the details about the author (co-authors) include the same points.
Submission requirements for affiliation
The article should include all details about the affiliation with a full name of an organization (a place of work) with no contractions and abbreviations and its status, as well as its exact address (postal code, country, city, street, building).
If the name and the address of the organization are to be translated into English, check the name and the address of the organization in the Charter of the organization and its official websites (e.g., refer to Реrm State University rather than to Perm State National Research University).
If the address is given in English, follow the English style rules and write the details in the following order (with proper punctuation marks): number of the building, street, city, postal code, country (e.g., 15, Bukireva st., Perm, 614990, Russia).
Submission requirements for an abstract
The abstract contains 200–250 words. The abstract should be split into sections within one paragraph: Introduction, Purpose, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusion.
The abstract should not echo the title of the article. The abstract should not repeat the manuscript.
Avoid any references in the abstract, as well as any abbreviations which are only defined in the full text of the manuscript. Abbreviations and contractions should be given in full in the abstract.
The abstract is the main and primary source of information about the article that is why its quality determines the interests of the readers to the manuscript and other studies of the author (co-authors).
Submission requirements for key words
Each article is accompanied with the key words (5 - 10 words or phrases in singular and nominative case) which fully reflect the content of the manuscript. A key phrase could have no more than three words.
Key words guide the readers and help find the articles in electronic bases, that is why they should reflect the area, topic, purpose, and the object of the research.
- Submission requirements for a manuscript
Make sure a manuscript complies with the sample.
It is recommended to use the authors’ surnames, first letters of the names, and the article title (e.g., IvanovP.А._article.docx).
Download the Sample of a manuscript
General Guide for Writing and Formatting
Paper format: А4.
Portrait page orientation.
2.0 cm margins on each side. Font — Times New Roman. Size — 14. Indention — 1.25 cm. Single line space.
The manuscript occupies at least 1 manuscript page (40,000 characters or 15 pages) and max 2 manuscript pages (80,000 characters or 30 pages).
When typing the text on a computer, avoid any styles, any space in front of the punctuation marks, any interword spaces, any symbols to cheat the Antiplagiat system, more than one space between the words, any forced hyphenation.
Images
Create the images with computer graphics in an editable format with no extra appeal to the authors.
If an image is created as a diagram in an excel format, copy it to a Word file in an editable format, use an option ‘Keep source formatting and embed workbook’. If the manuscript includes these images, make sure to send their source files to the Journal.
The width of the image does not exceed the text column width. All images should be numbered and have captions in Russian and English. The number of the image and its caption should be placed under the image. A caption has no full stop at the end.
All symbols and terms of the images should match the ones in the text or in the captions of the manuscript. The images should be placed after the paragraphs with the first references to these images.
Tables
Title of a table: 14 font size, regular font pattern. It is written in Russian and English. There is no full stop at the end of the title. Text in the table: 12 font size, regular font pattern.
Make sure tables have no empty cells. Table width does not exceed the text column width. All tables should be numbered. Make sure the tables are referred to in the manuscript. Tables are placed after the paragraphs with the first references to these tables.
If the article has one image or one table, they may not be numbered. The reference to them in the text is essential. Avoid putting an image or a table at the end of the article (section of the article).
Formulae
Formulae are created in a special formula editor: MathType or Microsoft Equation.
To type an equation, use the Latin letters (cursive), Greek letters (upright type), and Gothic font (upright type).
It is acceptable to transfer, first of all, the symbols =, <, >, on a second-priority basis — three dots (…), addition and subtraction signs (+, –), after all the others — multiplication sign as an x symbol. Avoid any transfer with a division sign. A mathematical sign with starts the transfer should be repeated at the beginning of the second line. Avoid separating the expressions under the integration sign, logarithm, sum, product from these signs.
Some formulae which are not stand-alone are typed in the text. The most important and extended formulae are numbered and typed in separate lines. These formulae are centered, while their numbers are put in brackets and aligned right.
Abbreviations
All abbreviations and contractions used by the author in the text, tables, images, and formulae, must be deciphered.
- Funding
If the research was funded by any fund, organization, specify this information in this section of the manuscript by naming these grants, contracts, scholarships for the research.
- References
The Journal has no requirements for References to the article in Russian. If the article is accepted, the Editorial Board prepares the References to the article.
Rules for the design of the bibliography
The article is followed by References prepared in accordance with the Sample. The references are numbered in the order the sources are mentioned in the article.
A list of references includes at least 25 sources. It covers the sources referred to while writing the article. The manuscript contains the references to all sources. Avoid any references to unpublished works and works in print.
References do not include any regulatory documents, statistical digests, dictionaries, encyclopedia, reference books, reports, textbooks, articles from non-scientific journals, newspapers, and other non-scientific sources. These sources could be referred to on a page, if needed.
Follow the same rules to refer to the sources published in a foreign language.
A literature source is referred to by its sequence number in square brackets: [1], [2; 3]. If needed, a specific page is referred to as follows [2, p. 312]; [3, p. 312–320; 4, p. 10].
Electronic scientific sources of remote access (Internet) are referred to by their electronic address followed by their access date in round brackets (access date 01.03.2009).
The Editorial Board prepared a References Sample which should be followed by the authors submitting their article to the Journal.
Requirements for the preparation of accompanying documents
Use the author’s Personal Account to upload the manuscript and the following documents:
The manuscript is only submitted together with a License Agreement which is obligatory for Perm University Herald. Economy.
Follow the link to see the samples of a License Agreement and Consent for Personal Data Processing.
To fill in a License Agreement, observe the following requirements: forms must be filled out by hand in two copies, avoid any contractions of the words; do not put a number and a date (the Editorial Board of the Journal numbers and registers the agreements).
Expert Opinion
Having an Expert Opinion is an obligatory requirement for the manuscripts submitted to Perm University Herald. Economy and refers to the studies performed in Russia.
If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author prepares one copy of Expert Opinion (a consent from the organization where the study has been performed) to publish the article in public sources and sends it together with the License Agreement, Consent for Personal Data Processing to the Journal’s address: 614068, Russia, Perm, Bukireva st, 15, PSU, Faculty of Economics, Editorial Board of the Journal.
